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13 vFOR SALEâ€"Mangolds. and . Alfalfa hay for sale, also finest cooking \.apples, turnips 50¢ per bus., carrots ‘ and beets 75¢ per bus., delivered. \* Callâ€"or write Geo. Hull, Downsyiew Tifarie oâ€"18â€"1t WANTEDâ€"Boofs and shoes to repair FOR SALEâ€"Made to order boots for men and boys. & Strong and durable. Apply T. Hatt@n, Main Street, Wesâ€" ton..â€" Phone 238; xâ€"4.0â€"1â€"t. ‘Wantedâ€"To Rent a piano for the evâ€" ening of Friday, January 23rd. Adâ€" vertiser will attend to moving of _ same and return next day. Apply _ W..C. Burrage, 106 Rosemount Ave. $10.00 REWARD for the information / leading to the .conviction of the _| thief, or thieves, who cut the cedars out of the hedge on the Hope estate, Scarlett Road:. Henceforth trespasâ€" sers will be pibsecuted. F. G. Hope, Weston. as oâ€"12â€"1t FOR SALEâ€"7 foomed brick house, on lot, 47 ft. x 3 ft., divided cellar, 3 piece toilet reduced price for quick sale. ‘PBhone 596j, Weston. FLORENCE MANN > By her Solfcitors, ROBINETTE & TAYLOR, â€" §¥ FOR SALEâ€"2 lots on Humber heights 80. ft. x 120 &t. each, will be sold single or together. Phone . 596), "Weston. oS 0â€"13â€"4¢. Florence Man®, of the City of Toronto, in the Countys of York, in the Province of Ontario, will apply to the Parliament of Canada atithe next session thereof for a Bill of Bivorce from her husband Wong Harry Mann, of the said City of Toronto, on §_&- ground of adultery. Dated the @B§th day of December, AD. 1924. $ xâ€"Ilâ€"5t FOR SALE â€" Child‘s cot, practically new, reason _ for selling, leaying town. Apply 56 Coulter Ave., Wesâ€" ton. > xâ€"13â€"1t _ POURED BLOCKS BEST Granite Congrete Block Co. 832 WES;'gg iD;]CT_ 315;I:;ORONTO NOTICE Notice is ‘hereby given that ‘Grace Harrington Bloom, of the City of Toâ€" ronto, in the County ‘of York, in the Province of f&fi'fitario, married woman, will apply to the Parliament of Canaâ€" da, at the néxt session thereof, for a Bill of Divorge from her husband, Elâ€" ton Russell fiiom, of the said City of Toronto, Bond Salesman, on the ground of adultery and desertion. GEORGE F. MACDONNELL, 53 Queen St., Ottawa, Ont. Solicitor for the Applicant, Grace Harrington Bloom. x710-5t fleas FOR SALE CHEAPâ€"Moffat coal stove, wonderful heater; coal oil g stave, nearly new; a flat top, six side draw, business desk and chair. _ Phone 476w or call at 154 Roseâ€" mount Ave. + xâ€"13â€"1t msmc ELECTRIC _ .~ PRODUCTS â€" 285 MAINST. NORTH Phone 346]. § Open Eveni 800 St. Clafr Ave. _ DATED at Ottawa, in the Province of Ontarioy,;this 23rd day of December, 1924. Phone Hill. 7036 or Weston 276 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1925 RADIO SETS & SUPPLIES Electric Fixtures 4 Evenings, NOTICE dg;APPLICATlON FOR s «PIVORCE i;fiées reasonaBle. Apply T. Hatton, Main ‘St., Weskon. Phone 238. _ Phone Weston £06 NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that A fine display, of Fixtures at aâ€" \oattracti@we prices Large WANT COLUMN QVérlang& Willysâ€"Knight ‘Dealers § lRVINE | St.Clair Oakwood Bek of Used Cars, in S 2 gagd condition. 48 Bay Street, Toronto APPLICATION FOR IVORCE otors ston 459J or 332 Open Evenings m & a & m i & PA 5 8 (9 in â€" o s h hi xâ€"28â€"18â€"T Toronto xâ€"40â€"1â€"t 0â€"18â€"4t xâ€"18â€"1t And fur§i@i take notice that after sueh last @er@fned date the said Adâ€" ministrat@kK wriéproceed to distribute the asseff# of th@kideceased among the parties sntitled tWieto, having regard only toifthe claims§@f which she shall then hake notices andithe said Adminisâ€" tratrix ®ill not % liaDije for the said asâ€" sets or @ny part theredg to any person or persohs of whose clim notice shall not have been #eceived Bby her at the time of such difgribution. C. LORNE FRASER, : $ Banof Nova Scotia Bldg., Solicitor for tire said Administratrix xâ€"11â€"3t Keo In the matter of the estate of James Henry Laver, late of the Township of North York, in the County of York, farmer, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to "The Revised Statutes of Ontario," 1914, Chapter 121, and â€" amendments thereto, that all creditors and others having claims against the said James Henry Laver, who died on or about the 20th day of September, 1924, are reâ€" quired on or about the 1st day of Febuâ€" ary, 1925, to be sent by post prepaid or delfger to C. Lorne Fraser, Solicitor for A@laide Hannah Laver, Adminiâ€" stratrix®ipf the Estate of the said deâ€" ceased, ‘gheir @pristian and surnames, addressesiand @Escriptions, the full parâ€" ticulars @RWth@¢ claim, verified by afâ€" fidavit, ang@#ie nature of the securiâ€" ties, if anyi@§eld by them Dated the 3Q§ day of, December, 1924. i s IN THE \g":fl ER of the Estate of Debora Betigidge, late of the Town of Weston,; the County of York, Spinster, Dégeased. NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to "The Reviged Statutes of Ontario," 1914, Chaptei@121, and amendments thereto, that s@ll creditors. and others having claimsgagainst the said Debora Bettridge, wkb died on or about the 25th day of Weptembr, 1924, are reâ€" quired on or fihout the 1st day of Febâ€" ruary, 1925, t be sent by post prepaid or deliver to @. Lorne Fraser, Barrisâ€" ter, etc:, Waéton, Ont., Solicitor for Allan Bettridge and James Coulter, Executors of@the Estate â€"of the said deceased, thei®@Christian and surnames, addresses an® descriptions, the full particulars of@@their claim, verified by affidavit, and the nature of the se curities, if any, held by them. ‘ _ AND furthir take notice that after such last menfioned date the said Exeâ€" cutors will gÂ¥oceed to distribute the assets of the iWeceased among the parâ€" ties entitled Â¥thereto, having regard only to the dfaims of which they shall then have nofice, and the said Execuâ€" tors will no‘i be liable for the said assets or anyapart therecof to any perâ€" son Or -; of whose claim notice shall not hayg been received by them at the time Bf such distribution. DATED Whe 6th day of January, 1925,. T2 SATURDAY, JANUARY 3ist, 1925, at the hour%f 12 o’clofl: noon at the auction roo@@s of W. Walrd Price, Ltd., at 111 King St. West, Toronto, the folâ€" lowing valugble farm property (formâ€" erly owned By one Simon Shunk), £e., MORTGAG FARM P . Under and®by virtue of the powers contained in; certain mortga®e dated the first d of Febtruary, 1909, and which will be produced at the time of sale, there Will be offered for sale by public auctign on | All and si ular those certain parcels or tracts of SHand and premises situate, lying and Weing in the Township of Vaughan, im the County of York, and being compased of: FIRSTLY% Lot number eight (8) in the Fourth #Concession of, the said Township of Vaughan, containing by admeasuremignt two _ hundred acres more or lesg, and SECONDEY: All that part of lot number nin@ (9) in the said fourth concession @f the said Township of Vaughan wlfch may be more particulâ€" arly described as follows, that is to sayr â€" y . â€"_â€" > COMMENCING where a post has been planted at the northâ€"west angle of the said lotg thence north seventyâ€"four degrees easg fifty chains more or less to land formerly owned by one Alexâ€" ander Arm®ur; thence south nine deâ€" %Tees east &wenty chains more or less o the limf between lots nine and eight; theriee along said limit south seventyâ€"four degrees west twentyâ€"five chains moge or less to land formerly owned by Bimon Shunk, the elder; thence nowfh nine degrees west nineâ€" teen chaing seventyâ€"five links more or less to within twentyâ€"five links of the nortlsgrn _ boundary _ of said lot; thenc@ south seventyâ€"four deâ€" degress west twentyâ€"five chains more or less torthe allowance for road at the rear af said lot; thence north nine degrees wést, twentyâ€"five links more or less to the place of beginning, conâ€" taining fiféy acres more or less. ‘ On‘ the @bove lands are said to be situate a etached commodious brick house containing about ten rooms, a frame houge of about seven rooms, a large and gommodious barn with stone basement &0‘ x 120‘, a second barn 30‘ x 60° a lagge hog pen, a large poultry house, a cgmbined workshop and garâ€" age, an icg house, sheds and other imâ€" provemen®g. xâ€"12â€"3t The preperty sale, subj@et to : ject to e@rtain which mak be se undersign@d solic ing offic@ hours The verf@or offers to accept a first mortgage Wor part of the sale price (not excee€ing $14,000.900) : such mortâ€" gage to be Wnade back by the purchasâ€" er (at his expense) on a form selected by vendor‘s solicitors, icharged upon said lands, free of dowsf' and securing to the vendor as mortgagee a sum not exceeding $14,000.00, principal to run for five years and with interest meanâ€" while at seven (Â¥ p.c.) per cent. per annum payable halfâ€"yearly. TERMSâ€"Ten per cent. of the purâ€" chase money to be paid down at the time of sale and either the entire balâ€" ance or balance in excess of said. first mortgage within thirty days. Further particulars and conditions of sale may be had at the time of sale or upon application to . _ & PARSONS & ADDY, 18 Toronto St., Toronto, Solicitors for the Mortgagee, NOTICE TO CREDITORS Rwer to C. Lorne «élaide Hannah ipf the Estate , #heir @§ristian sesgiand @scriptic rs dBEth@i& claim, t, angiaiiiife nature f anyfWild by the 1 fu]; " take n last sWenfined da ;rat' W S roce sef# of th@idece s aintitled tWieto ol the claims i iafe notices andgt x Ayill not e lia Di r @ny part thered NOTICE®TO CREDITORS 2. LORNE FRASER, Bank of Nova Sgotia Bldg., ®. Weston, Ont. Solicitas for the said Executors] f%perty will _ be offered for ct to a reserve bid, and subâ€" rtain conditions _of sale $ be seen at the office of the d solicitors at any timé durâ€" f whose cl en eceived i difgributior s30th day LORNE FR. Saniof Nov. r flie said A s CE TO CREF IAJETER of etifidge, lat n,, the Co Degeased. is hereby ; vised Statute es 121, an t sall credit osg‘against tI vBH died on f Beptembr, r fifout the J te be sent I o . Lorne V eégton, Ont. idge and . ofethe Estai ei@Christian in@ descript SALE OF 9PERTY AT EDGELEY t died on or about. the eptembr, 1924, are reâ€" out the 1st day of Febâ€" ‘be sent by post prepaid Weston, Ont 1. The Council of the Corporation of the Twp. of Etobicolke intends to construct a 12 inch wateg main, to FChh«s er with the necessary ydrantsp@@ives and ete., on Islingtong A ye@@aÂ¥etween Bloor St. and South Wi@a#@@Ary of Plan 2392 as a Local J@@WOvement and inâ€" tends to speca@@@®" ag@ess a part of the cost â€"upong@Ne la abutting directly upon thework. â€" & 2. The estimaté@Rcost of the work is $4400, of which $500 is to be paid by the corporationggnd charged to Water Area No. 7. iWhe estimated special rate per foo rontage is $1.20, or spread over g#period of 20 years, the estimated anf@@al rate will be 10 cents. The special @#sessment is to be paid in 20 annual i@@talments. 3. A petiffn to the said Council will not avail t prevent its construction, but a petitf@n against the work or the manner in ®which it has been undertakâ€" en, may b&imade pursuant to section 9 of the ocal Improvement Act, to the Ontaio Railway and Municipal Board, by a majority of the owners representing at least oneâ€"half of the value of the lots which are to be specâ€" ially assessed therefor. S. BARRATT, APPLICATION TO PARLIAMENT 1. The Counecilâ€"of the Corporation of the Twp. of Etobicoke intends to construct an eicht inch water main toâ€" gether with the (necessary Rydrants, valyes, and etc:, on Church &reet beâ€" tween the North and South&Boundaries of Water Area No. 8, a@Uefined by By:â€"law No. &12 as a gBOcal Improveâ€"= ment and intekigs tog@pecially assess a part of the co§f@m@@en the land abutâ€" ting directly upgi@he work. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Application will be made to the Legislature of the Province of Ontarâ€" io at the next Sessiorgthereof on beâ€" half of the Corporati@@ â€"of the Townâ€" ship of Etobicoke forn Act: 1. To declare Byâ€"1@# No. 1642, beâ€" ing a Byâ€"law authori@#g the widening of the Lake Shore Wpad, legal, valid and binding. & f McMASTER, MONTGOMERY, FRAâ€" SER, BULLEN&® STEELE, coke. xâ€"12â€"6t xâ€"183â€"1â€"t> , Townshp Clerk, C j is ctrgmn TOWNSHIP OF ETOBICOKE TAKE NOTICE THAT: of Water ',a No. 8, a@defined by By:â€"law No. &12 as a gBOcal Improveâ€"= ment and interigs tod@Wecially assess a part of the co§f@m@@en the land abutâ€" ting directly upgi@he work. 2. The estim@Redast of the work is $7500., of wi@en $90@p0 is to be paid by the Cog@ération, "WaÂ¥d charged to Water Ag@a No. 8. Tilke estimated special mie per foot fronfifige is $1.25 or spread over a period of @0 years. the estivoated annual rate wiflf@be 12 cents. The special assessment iS§to be paid in 20 annual instalments. I'“ & Tt 20 uNA COE O2 l o ts TAKE NOTICE THAT: t.)The @uncil of the Corporation of the Twp. of Etobicoke intends to construct an eight inch water main toâ€" gether with the necessary hydrants, valyes and ete., on Church Street beâ€" tween the North and South Boundatry of Water Atea No, 10, as defined by. Byâ€"law No.: 1668 as a Local Improveâ€" ment and intends to specially assess a part of Â¥he cost upon the land abutâ€" ting directly upon the work. 2. The estimated caost of the work is $2000., of wiieh $32500 is to be paid by the Corpb@ationg and charged to Water ‘Arca N@ 1@ The estimated special rate ;ier EWBE frontage is $1.20, or spread over a peliéad of 20 years, the estimated annual@etage! will be 10% cents.â€" The speok@t ass@@#ement is to be paid in 20 annulif insta waents. 8. A petitioniio the sai'puncil will not avail to pWevent its c@nstruction, but a petition@hgainst the ark or the manner in which it has beeg underâ€" taken, may be made pursuanfiffifio seeâ€" tion 9 of the Local Improvement Act, 1 Eon Sn en e i boem mpae o ce en en : 3. A petition to the said Council will not avail to prevent its eonstruction, but a petition against the work or the manner in which it has been underâ€" taken, may be made pursuant to secâ€" tion 9 of the Local Improvement Act, to the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board, my a majority of the owners representing at least oneâ€"half of the value of the lots which are to be especâ€" ially assesgsed therefor. »% S. BARRATT, TAKE NOWICE THAT: to the Ontafi?@ Railway and Municipal Board, by a majority of the owners representingfi;fit!least oneâ€"half of the value of the Jots which are to be specâ€" ially assessed therefor. h si4glt & xâ€"18â€"1â€"t. y Township CIerk, rgeaâ€"n tz TOWNSHIP OF ETOBICOKE 2. The estimated cost of thRe work is $7100, of Â¥which $1700 ig@gto be paid by the Cp@@oration, ARW@ charged to Water Area $o. 10@@@Â¥he estimated special rate peRMf@@@"Trontage is $1.20, or spread overa®@Rxgiod of 20 years, the estimated afmual ie will be 10% cents.. The special asse§ment is to be paid in 20 annual instalmé¥#@s. 3. A petition to the said neil will not avail to prevent its consfiguction, but a pgl’cition against the work ®r the mannen}in which it has been underâ€" takenf may be made pursusant to seeâ€" tion 9 j6f the Local Improvement Act, to the Ontarioâ€"Railway and Municipal Board, by a majority of the owners representing at least oneâ€"half of the value of the lots which are to be specâ€" ially assessed therefor. / xâ€"18â€"1â€"t o. S§TIORONTO. . 902 Tefféple Building, Solicitors for the T&rnship of Etobiâ€" TOWNSHIP OF ETOBICOKE TOWNSHIP OF ETOBICOKE o those building will send FREE PLANS. â€" MODERN FARM HOUSE he North and SouthBoun« er Area No. 8, a@ defin‘ No. ¥§12 as a §8cal Imy id intellgs tog@pecially ass the co§$G@@en the land ectly upgif@he work. e estim@edÂ¥@ast of the w of wW@n $90@0 is to be Com@bration, "Wad chars g#a No. 8. Tilke esti ie per foot fronfi@ge is ad over a period of @0 : taoated annual rate wifk] J. B. MACKENZIE GEORGETOWN, ONT. t a 12 inch wategf main, toFCbaes the necessary 4ydrantsa@i@ives , on Islingtong A yea@irÂ¥e tween â€" and South H@i#@@Ary of Plan a Local Jm@WWOvement and inâ€" specag@®y agiess a part of the nsg#Ne lan@g abutting directly‘ AWork. â€" & : estimateé@Rcost of the work is | ‘ which §#500 is to be paid by orationgignd charged to Water o. 7. dihe estimated special â€" foot@frontage is $1.20, or ver gi@period of 20 years, the 1 ani@Wal rate will be 10 cents. vkich $325,00 is to I tpo@Rtion,s. and . char ca ‘ N& 1@ â€"The es e ;fier F@RE frontage i ver a fad of 20 ye annualferake: will b speciifif ass@#ement i annugit instalm@gents. itionuito the saidCoun o mievent its const ionkhgainst the w?%lf which it has beew § o o e ie which $1700 isgsto Â¥Roration, â€" Aa@@s ct \ k SS a o. 10g@NÂ¥The > peféa@i@ Trontame ivers@f@ziod of 20 anmual _ ie wil : special asscRgmen s 8 g. BARRATT, S. BARRATT, Township Clerk S. BARRATT, Township Clerk Township Clerk Township Clerk TBE TIMES AND GUDE, WESTON / "Norman‘ Wylde won‘t go because I â€"have treated him so coldly, Rosiland says; but heâ€"may. sulk all he chooses. I shall not make up with him in a hurry." & ‘"Oh, very well. There will be plenty of other beaust"‘ Juliette said, tossing her head and pretending to be indifâ€" ferent. "Well, It is settled that we meet at the depot‘this evening, Mrs. Wylde?" "Yes," replied the lady; and Juliette hurried homeâ€" to make therâ€" arrangeâ€" ments, and to vent her spleen on Norâ€" man Wylde by saying to Pansy: It had appeared very strange to her to find Norman Wylde and the beauâ€" tifal Mrs. Falconer alone in the park together, and seeming to be on very amicable terms with each other, whereâ€" as she had supposed them to be. alâ€" most utter strangers. . 4 4 When Pansy bad left â€" Norman Wylde, Mrs. Meade sat down on the seat she had yvacated, and her face was very grave and thoughtful. â€" A ‘ "Perhaps she is a flirt," she thought suspiciously; and just. then Norman Wylde turned his head, after watching Pansy until she disappeared, and said: _ The â€" old housekeeper, who. had known him ever since he was a little boy, answered dryly: % k s _ "How does it hapf;én that Mrs. Falâ€" coner and Pet are so well acquainted with each other?" 4 ‘_"Mr. Norman, I was just going to ask the same question about yourself and Mrs. Falconer." He smiled at first, then flushed a datk red at her searching glance, and answered : SeC u sav f "But I do not know Mrs. Falconer very well. I have never met her but once or. twice until ‘she came down this path, quite by Accident, a while ago, and l invited her to rest a few minutesâ€"she looked so tired and warm." 4 f _ "A married fliret! No, indeed! I beâ€" lieve Mrs. Falconer is as pure and sweet as a child. She is so much like one I knew years ago that she could not be~otherwise," exelaimed Noriman Wylde earnestly, as he fondled Pet, who had crept to his knee, thus conâ€" soling himself for the departure of his Spreity yady." ./ _. "I was afraid she was one of them married flirts that‘s getting so fashionâ€" able nowadays," muttered Mrs, Meade. Mrs. Meade looked up, all eager inâ€" terest. "Like some one you knew?" she exâ€" claimed eagerly. "Yes," he replied, with a heavy sigh, and the housekeeper asked coaxingly: "Would you mind telling me whom she looked like, Mr. Norman?" "Mr. Norman, are you sure she drowned herself?" she asked eagerly. "Sure!‘ he repeated, turning toward hrer, with wondering eyes. "Why, what do you mean, Mrs. Meade?" "Curiosity, thy name is woman!"‘ he said, with a low. laugh, half dreary aâ€" fnusement, half bitterness; then, with another sigh, he went on: "Mrs. Meade, I suppose you know all about my‘ unfortunate love affair of three years _ ago?" She nodded, and then he said: "This beautiful Mrs. Falconer is the image of the girl I loved, and from whom my parents parted me. She comâ€" milted suicide by drowning within a year after I went away, you rememâ€" ber?" j & _ "Being such an old woman, Mr. Norman, and knowing you ever since you was no bigger than Pet here, you needn‘t mind my asking you questions that might be impertinent from some people." "Ah!‘ exclaimed the old housekeepâ€" er; and her face began to glow with excitment. & "Was her body everâ€"recovered from the river?" retorted the housekeeper significantly. § He started violently, then answered: â€" He sprang from his seat, pushing Pet unconsciously from him, and conâ€" fronted her, pale with surprise and exâ€" citement. â€" e sartoust "You must be mad!‘he exclaimed. "This lady was one of the belHes of Louisvilleâ€"never â€" was in ~Richmond until this summer, I am=told."> "Sit down, Mr. Norman, and forgive me for talkingâ€"like ,an old fool, alâ€" though maybe I‘m not such a fool, after all," answereed Mys. Meade. But he would not sit down again; he reâ€" mained standingâ€" in front of her and looking down consciously into her agâ€" itated face as she continued, in a low, grave volce: "So I thought," said Mrs. Meade, and, following up her train of thought, she added: "Thereâ€"isn‘t any possibility that Mrs. ‘Falconer can be the same girl, is there, Mr. Norman?": "Ask what you please, Mrs. Meade. I am too much your friend to take ofâ€" fense at your plain speaking," he reâ€" plied encouragingly; and, without any further preamble, she queried: And, for answer, she began at the first meeting of Mrs, Kalconer and, the child, and related all that had taken place since, dwelling strongly on their mutual passionate attachment for each other, and on the, lady‘s eager desire to adopt the child. "In that unfortunate love affair of yours, Mr. Norman, was there any proâ€" spect ofâ€"aâ€"child?" He started as if shot, and, dtopping into a seat again, caught Pet‘s hand and drew him forward, scrutinizing his beautiful features with eager eyes. "Can‘t you see that he has your eyes, your features?" exclaimed Mrs. Meade triumphantly, and, with someâ€" thing like a groan, he muttered: "And something . of> her, ‘too!" he said. "That smile, those dainty dimâ€" ples, how like! Now I understand what drew my heart so strongly to the child. Mrs. Meade," looking up at her with blazing eyes, "you must answer now the question I asked you first: How is it that Pet and Mrs. Falconer know each other so well?" No‘ he ‘answered quickly. almost angrily, yet she saw the hot color shoot up to his brow, and his glance fell beâ€" fore hers. Sheâ€"sighed, ‘and exclaimed: "Then I‘m all at sea again, for, to tell you the truth, Mr. Norman, I‘ve been half believing all this time that Pet here was your own child!" “NO !” T he Great Reward (Continued From Last\Week) CHAPTER â€"XXVIL. "A Married Flirt." "I will tell the truth, Mr. Norman: I strongly suspect that this beautiful lady is the child‘s own mother, and if there is no chance that the little one can be yours, why, then I ought to let her have him, maybe. I refused beâ€" cause I thought he was yours," she said. "You were right not to let her have him," he exclaimed hurriedly. Then his face dropped into his hands a moâ€" ment, and passersâ€"by looked curiously at the old woman, the pretty child, and the handsome man bowed in an attiâ€" tude of deep pejection. Little Pet was so grieved at the man‘s sorrowful attitude that he went up to him and encireled Norman‘s neck with his chuby arms, and enquired tenâ€" derly: "Oo kyin‘ tause pretty yady, gone?" "The young man caught him in his arms, and straining him to his breast, and again gazed eagerly into his loveâ€" ly face. "My little darling, what if it were to prove true?" he muttered hoarsely; then, looking around at Mrs. Meade, he asked: "Do you know where Mrs. Laurens, the mother of poor little Pansy, lives?" "No, I do not know," she replied; and a look of bitter dissapointment came over his face. "I have been trying ever since 1 came home to trace that woman," he exclaimed. "I remember that just beâ€" fore I went away she was married a second time, and went on a bridal tour with her husband. But I do not know the name of the person she married, nor where she is living now, for she has moved away from where she reâ€" sided when I went away." Was it fate, or only a blind chanee, for at that moment there came along the walk a plainly dressed, stooping figure, with a sad, worn face that had onee been very pretty, though now faâ€" ?ded and forlorn. Norman had gseen Pansy‘s mother only once, but be reâ€" cognized her again in this passerâ€"by and, springing to his feet, exclaimed: "Mrs. Laurens!" The pale, sadâ€"looking creature r: cni%ed from him with a frightened de pial: j "Iâ€"Iâ€"that is not my name!"‘ Norman caught her wrist in a firm yet tender clasp, for she was trying to get away. $ "Wait!" he said sternly. "Denials are useless, for I know that you are Mrs. Laurens, and I think you know that I am Norman Wylde. I was just speaking about you and wishing 1 knew where to find you. I want you to tell me the truth about the child here. Is it not your daughter Pansy‘s?" "Noâ€"oh, no!" she exclaimed wildly; but just then Mrs. Meade exclaimed "Noâ€"oh, no!" she but just then Mrs. surprisedly: "La. me, that‘s the very woman I have seen dozens of times, hanging aâ€" bout* when I took Pet out, but never mistrusted who she was!" He slept but litt‘e that night for ithinking about her, and the next day he came to the conclhusion that, of all those concerned in the drama in which he was so cleverly enacting the vilâ€" lain‘s part, there was no chance of blackmailing any but Colonel Falconâ€" ef. Mrs, Laurens looked at her implorâ€" ingly and faltered out: "You must be mistaken.I never saw you before, ma‘am." housekeeper, _ gave the lie t for bhe came t cooed sweetly: ‘You see, the child knows you. Conâ€" fess the truth now! Are you not his own grandmother?" exclaimed Norâ€" man, low but eagerly. Mrs. Laurens writhed under his grasp,, and looked from right to left with frightened eyes. "Will you swear that this is not Panâ€" sy‘s child?" Norman insisted hoarsely; but at that moment sheâ€"succeededâ€" in freeingher hand from hig clasp and darted away like a startled deer. Not wishing â€"to create a sensation, he had to refrain from following her. "Answer me!‘ persisted Norman. But a dogged look came over her face, and she replied: D "No, my daughter Pansy never had a child. Why do you want to throw disgrace on my poor dead girl?" And she suddenty burst into tears, and, tugâ€" ging at his hand, wailed out: "Ob, let me go! I promised to meet my daughâ€" ter Alice when she was coming home from the factory, andâ€"andâ€"it‘s past closing time now,"\ Mr. Finley hadleft Pansy and sought his home again in a tempest of fury and baffled <cupidity, realising fully that his scheme of blackmailing her would not succeed,; and that he must lock elsewhere for booty. Pansy‘s dauntless bravery and defiâ€" ance had certainly staggered his bold courage, and he began to fear that he was not going to reccive such a windfall as he had expected from Pansy‘s seâ€" cret. Having a dangerous secret of his ‘own, which would be sure to come to light if he proceeded apenly against her, he found himself in a quandry. "The: plucky little wretch! Who would have believed that she would openly defy me,. and deny her identity? Why, she would have handed me over to that policeman in another moment if‘I hadn‘t cut ard run," he exclaimed angrily, feeling that he would like to shake the little beauty for her bold defiance. a I have been seeing my poor little grandchild by stealth, and is he planâ€" ning some punishment for me?" "He is rich and will pay liberally for the keeping of the secret I hold against his wife," he decided, and then he set his cunning brain to work to devise a plan by which to approach Colonel Falconer on the delicate subâ€" ject of his wife. Poor little Mrs. Finley, whom he had long ago reduced to the status of a trembling, obedient slave, looked at him in wonder as he lounged about the house, paving no attention to the grocery, for he had long ago placed Willie in his store as a clerk, and the vouth was very reliable. She thought fearfully: "There is something brewing in his cupring mind. Has hefound out that "Well I The Blackmailer Baffled. CHAPTER XXVIII. never!" ejaculated the and little Pet himself to Mrs. Laurens‘ denial, to her with a smile, and She trembled at the thought, for she knew that he was both cunning and vindicitive. He ruled her and her chilâ€" fdren with a rod of iron. \â€"â€"He had never forgotten or forgiven {the asscrtion of his wife, that she would never have married him if she had known that he would not care for her children, and he made her and them suffer for it in various ways. One of his favorite methods was to taunt them with the. disgrace that Panâ€" sy had brought upon them, and anâ€" |other was to keep alive in Willie‘s breast the fierce resentment and murâ€" derous wrath that had taken hold of him when he first learned that his beautiful sister had gone astray. Left to himself and to the remorseâ€" ful pleadings of his mother, the young man might have got over some of his anger, more especially as poor Pansy had atoned for her fault with her life. There were times when the rememâ€" brance of her message to. him, her pitiful promise that she would never disgrace him again, stung keenly, and forced him to accuse himself of being accessory to her death; but these moods never lasted long, for whenâ€" ever Mr. Finley found these kinder impulses taking root in the youth‘s mind he would dispel them by malâ€" iciously hinting that, in all probabil= ity, Pansy was yet alive, and might turn up at any time to recall to the world the scandal that had trailed its slime over the name of Laurens. "Pretty Kate North would only smile so sweetly then when she saw you waiting at the church door on Sundays," he suggested, with a leer that brought the hot color to Willie‘s cheeks, for this, his real love affair, was a very tender point with him, and he had often wondered to himself if pretty little Kate North, with her black eyes and dimpled red cheeks, thought any the less of him because of the family disgrace. "How dared she disgrace the family so? I hate her‘ niemory, even though believing her deod, and if I knew she were alive I should be tempted to carâ€" ry out my threat, and shoot her on sight," he replied angrily to the taunt of his stepfather that day on <which Mr. Finley‘s mind was so engaged in plotting the best means by whichto extort money from Colonel Falconer for keeping the dark secret of his wife‘s past. His love for Kate made him @all the more bitter in his thoughts toward Pansy. He did not know that his malice had overâ€"reached itself, and that the fury smoldering in Willie‘s impetuous mind, dud fanned into flame by his sneers and gibes, would bear fruit to disapâ€" point him of all his avaricious hopes. Willie was almost twenty now, with an overâ€"strained sense of honor, sharâ€" pened in intensity by his sister‘s fault. He was sensitively alive to the dis grace that rested on the family name, and had brocded over it until he had grown morbid. His handsome young face remained dark and cloudy after Mr. Finley went out, and his thoughts were so absorbed that he could searceâ€" ly wait upon the customers who came in and out of the neat store. ©You are mad, simply mad! Would you become your sister‘s murderer, and break your poor mother‘s heart?" cried Mr. North, shocked and pained by his furious mood, and not dreamâ€" ing of the fiery fluid that had inâ€" flamed the young man‘s blood. He turned away from the reckless boy, and was going abruptly out of the store when a horseman drue rein on the pavement before him, and asked excitedly; : "Strange that he is always suggestâ€" ing theâ€" thought that Pansy may be alive, after all. Perhaps he knows more than he chooses to tell," he muttered. And the thouht wore on him so that he went to the corner of a shelf, where his stepfather kept a private bottle, and took a drink of brandy to steady is shakinz nerves. Then, from a case in a hiding place of his own he took a small pistol and examined it with gloomy eyes. "It is all right," he muttered hoarseâ€" ly; then, at the sound of a step enterâ€" ing the store, he replaced it hurriedly, and turned around, to face Mr. North, the father of the girl he loved. "No, no!" the gentleman exclaimed, recoiling in dismay, but Willie Laurâ€" ens angrily reiterated his threat. "You will see," he said. "She wreckâ€" ed my life, and I will wipe out the family disgrace in her heart‘s blood." Mr. North was only a clerk, but he was inordinately proud and ambitious, and his face darkened with anger as he returned brusquely: _ "I care nothing for your prospects! It is your family I object to," was the brusque, startling reply. Then, as if ashamed .of the taunt, Mr. North went on, more gently: "I am sorry to wound your feelings, Willie; I believe you are a.good boy, in the main, although it was said at one time that you were dissipated and wild. Still, you had an excuse for thatâ€"the same excuse that I have in forbidding your attentions to my daughter." "Then she is running a terrible risk, for only let me find her, and I will send a bullet crashing through her shameless heart!‘ "Good afternoon, Mr. North. What can I do for you?" he inquired politeâ€" ly. "I said that I forhade any more atâ€" tentions to Kate. When she marries, it must be one with a stainless family record. Your sister‘s fault has disâ€" graced her family. and may doâ€"so even more terribly, for thre are many who dowbt that she was eyer drowned, and she may reappear at apy time." â€" "Mr. North, are there any grounds for this belief?" the poor fellow askâ€" hoarsely. f "A face like hers has been seen seâ€" veral times in Richmond lately. Some of the factory girls believe that they saw her yvesterday as they came from work. She is always richly dressed. and it must be that she is leading a life of gilded shame in this city." A hoarse groan came from the striâ€" cken young man‘s lips; then, with flashing eyes, he exclaimed: "I want a few words with you, young man. My wife tells me that you have been paying some attention,to my daughter Kate?" "Yeâ€"es, Mr. North," Willie stammerâ€" ed, with a boyish flushy adding anâ€" xiously; "I trust you have no objection to my love for her?" ; "Nonsense! You areâ€"nothing but a boy," replied Mr. North curtly, and the handsome young face before him decpened in color at the taunt; but he answered, in a manly way: "I am almost twenty, and my stepâ€" father has promised to give me a| partnership in the store when I amf twentyâ€"one. My prospects are fair." \ ~""Yes; is there anything wromg?" inâ€" lquired Mr. North curiously, and at the same moment the pale, agitated face of Willie Laurens appeared in the doorway, and he said: 7 "Does the mother of Miss Alice Laurens live here?" ind "I am the brother of Alice Laurens, What is wrong?" â€" 1 < +m 4 "Heaven knows I hate to tell you, but I have no choice. An accident has befallen your sister. She fell through an open hatchway at Arnell & Grey‘s a few minutes ago, andâ€"break it to her mother as gently as you can, for they are bringing her here now. She is very badly hurt. It is not believed that she can live." "Terrible!" cried Mr. North, as he Laurens, who had reeled and staggered in agony at the heartâ€"rendâ€" ing announcement. The man looked at him with pityâ€" ing eyes, and answered: 3 i â€""Eell Mrs. Falconer that a man is waiting with an important message \from her husband," he said boldly, The servant showed him into a small reception room, and disappeared, while Finley. waited rather nervously it must be confessed, for he was by no. means certain that Colonel Falconer was out. What if he should appear, and=kick the lying intruder oug of â€" doors? fer y But fortune favored chim, for in a \very few moments the eustle of a woâ€". \man‘s garments was audible, and then Pansy appeared before him, simply |clad in a paleâ€"gray traveling dress, and \with a tearâ€"stained face and swollen CHAPTER XXIX. Caught In A Trap. iss Pretty sisteenâ€"yearâ€"old Alice Laurâ€" ens looked worderfully like her elder sister as she lay, with pale face and closeâ€"shut lids, upon her little bed, with her mother and only ‘remaining gister, Nora, weeping over her, while Mr.â€"Finley hovered, like a bird of prey, in the background, heartlessly calculating in his own mind how far this accident might be turned to his advantage in forcing Pansy Falconer to own her identity, and to pay his price for keeping her secret from her proud husband. Alice Laurens had a broken arm, and had remained unconscious. ever since her fall, so that the physicians feared she had sustained internal inâ€" ijuries that would speedily resuit in death. One of them had accompanied her home, and sat in grave silence, watching thescene, while Willie Laurâ€" ens, utterly crushed and disheartened, had flung himself into a chair, and, with his convulsed face hidden in his hands. seemed utterly oblivious to everthing but his sorrow. 4 Minutes passed, and there was apâ€" parently no change in Alice. That she still fived. was only evident from a faint pulsation which the clever physiâ€" cian could harely detect in her wrist, and every moment he expected. that even that faint, fluttering spark would go out in death. Altogether. it was a sad scene on which the parting sun‘s rays fell, as they slanted in at the door and peneilâ€" ed with golden beams the prematureâ€" ly silvered head of the unhappy moâ€" ther as she knelt hy her‘ unconscious child, uttering pite us moans of grief and despair, for her afflictions pressed heavily on hi6r heart. The lingering sunset began. to fade. Some of the neighbours came in with hushed footseps and sympathetic faces. On the dark, frowning . face of Mr. Finley a light of satisfaction began to dawn. when iiwihce 13 galgcn the summer sky. i oped foom the solâ€" emn chainbâ€" ; wih noy were watchâ€" ing for the a â€" . in and disâ€" pusses‘ th coacu o of its treaâ€" aure, and dizsp _: d fr m the scene: He mads his way quickly to Frankâ€" lin Street, and rang the bell at Colâ€" onel Falconer‘s door. When a servant appeared he pushed past him and unâ€" ceremoniously entered the wide hall. "You!" she exciaimed, in horrified tones. He rose and bowed profoundly. _ "I came to bring you the sad news f poor Alice, but I see from your face that you have olweudy heard," he uid pointodly. s Pansy madâ€" â€" soâ€"rnful gesture, and sank into aseat. ‘What do you mean?" she demandâ€" ed, trying to keep up an assumption of indifference that was only too plainly belied by her trembling voice and swollen eyelids. ‘"Your sister Alice, Mrs. Falconer, fell, by accident, through an. open hatchway at Arnell & Grey‘s this afâ€" ternoon, and is now on her deathbed. She raves for youâ€"calls for you every moment. Can you have the heart to refuse to go to your dying sister?" She looked steadily at him, and anâ€" swered defiantly: ; > "I have heard of that accident at Atnell & Grey‘s, but what is that to me? I do not know the poor girl." "She did not send you. She believes that her erring sicter died," Pansy a,n«, «swered irresolutely. RHAJ ‘"What is the use your trying to fence with me like this. Pansy? I know you!‘ cried Finley harshly, adding: "But T did not know your cursed pride was so strong, else I had not come for vou, even to please that: poor, dying girl, who begged me so piteously to come." "She believed. that once, but not lately. There have been rumors that she is still alive, that she had been seen _ of late on the streets of this city, and _ that: she is ‘living a Jife of gilded _ thame. The story â€"ha preyed on the _ poor girl‘s mind, and she sent me to eek you, that she might pray you with | her dying breath to forsake your sinâ€" | ful life." ( No man ever x Lord, but that h doing. We get < i a thins about wR we put into it. M[ayvbe that‘s the reaso some people seem to get no joy out Christianityâ€"they put nothing into it cyes. She closed the door carefully beâ€" hind her, then started back as she beâ€" held her visitor. If they If others pray like they live, m what a prayer they utter. ; What if God took the prayers d some people seriously, and answeref them. There would be a migchty meat tering of the congregation. a some folks live like they pr; don‘t live at all. > (Continued Next Week MEDITATIONS * PAGE THREE : cheerfully to a was blessed in +